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Algae fortifies coral reefs in past and present
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Jet and lorry fuels made from rubbish to receive UK funding.
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Department for Transport offers £22m to projects developing waste-based fuels for vehicles too heavy to use electric power
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It's a fact: Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly.
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Michael E Mann
We can’t say that Hurricane Harvey was caused by climate change. But it was certainly worsened by it
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Scaling back the Mississippi Delta.
An invasion of tiny insects is killing swaths of coastal marsh at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and has turned an already unraveling...
Could Hurricane Harvey deal a fatal blow to climate change skepticism?
A damaged home is seen after Hurricane Harvey passed through on August 26th, 2017, in Rockport, Texas.
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Hurricane Harvey, the strongest storm...
European climate protesters take on German coal.
From the outside, the pitched circus tents and colorful figures dashing around look like the fair has arrived at the heart of Germany's brown coal...
Nanoparticles pollution rises 30 percent when flex-fuel cars switch from bio to fossil
Use of ethanol in vehicles reduces pollution by nanoparticles, a study shows. Levels of ultrafine particulate matter in São Paulo City, Brazil, increased by...
A low-cost method for solar-thermal conversion that’s simpler and greener
Researchers have developed a simple, low-cost, and environmentally sound method for fabricating a highly-efficient selective solar absorber (SSA) to convert sunlight into heat for...
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